Eric Garner's daughter feels the Bern in powerful video

Every Tuesday and Thursday since her father Eric Garner was publicly choked to death on July 17, 2014, by members of the New York City Police Department, his daughter, Erica, takes to the streets in protest.

Now, her protest has taken on a new form: A powerful video released on YouTube Thursday by Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, in which she gives the Democratic presidential candidate her support.

Sanders, who has been struggling to win over black voters, could use it. Some of his supporters, according to USA TODAY, believe that as African-American voters learn more about the Democratic Socialist, more could “switch their allegiance.”

In the video, where she discusses race, politics and the impact of her father’s death on the family, Garner argues that the Vermont senator is the only candidate who’s “not scared to go up against the criminal justice system.”

Shortly into the somber video is footage of Garner’s 6-year-old daughter reading about Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks; Garner explains to her that the fight for racial justice “isn’t really over.”

Morgan Baskin is a student at George Washington University and a USA TODAY intern.